GRAIL Maps the Moons Gravity . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MIT , GSFC Explanation: How did the Moon form? To help find out, NASA launched the twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) satellites in 2011 to orbit and map the Moon's surface gravity in unprecedented detail . ... Analysis of GRAIL data indicates that the moon has an unexpectedly shallow crust than runs about 40 kilometers deep, and an overall composition similar to the Earth. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main research and development work completed in 2010 and ready for implementation . Elaboration of automatic technology for analysis of abnormal changes of vegetation status based on satellite data . ... Satellite MODIS-Terra image, obtained on May, 17 2010. ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for implementation ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... 2008 September 24 . Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun . ... Explanation: Why has the Sun been so quiet recently? ... Our Sun has shown few active regions -- that house even fewer associated sunspots -- for over a year now, and such a period of relative calm is quite unusual. ... Visible above, this region, dubbed Active Region 1002 (AR 1002), was imaged in ultraviolet light yesterday by the SOHO spacecraft , which co-orbits the Sun near the Earth. ... About APOD | ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... University at a glance . ... A group of young scientists of Samara University under the guidance of the candidate of chemical sciences Yevgeniy Aleksandrov began to make the most extensive database in the world for the structure and physical properties of crystalline coordination polymers. ... The idea of making a database for coordination polymers already exists in the scientific community of the world. ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 16, 1998 . An Active Region of the Sun . Credit: A. Title ( Stanford Lockheed Institute ), TRACE , NASA . ... This false-color image depicts an active region near an edge of the Sun . Hot plasma is seen exploding off the Sun's photosphere and traveling along loops defined by the Sun's magnetic field . ... About APOD > . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . Science news . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia is a leading Russian enterprise engaged in developing and operation of the ISS RS, its integration into station, and transportation support /maintenance using Soyuz, Progress vehicles, as well as development of the main Russian modules of the station (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.) and their integration into the ISS RS. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Next: X--ray Quiet PMS Up: Contents Previous: Fits to Evolutionary . The X--ray selected PMS candidates may not constitute a complete list. The primary factor is the sensitivity limit, complicated by the vignetting in the field of the PSPC which was used to make the source list. ... In order to better understand the completeness of the X--ray data, photometry of every star in both regions was undertaken. ... The X--ray quiet sources are distributed evenly across the field (see Figure 8 ). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Of the worlds in our Solar System (gas giants excluded) only Venus has a completely ice-free surface. ... The continued melting of polar ice and consequent freshening of the waters of the Arctic Ocean might stop some ocean currents €аaffecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people.€а Studying the ice worlds of space helps us understand the part that ice has played in the history of our own planet and our present day existence on it. ...

... For complete information about the apparent distribution of HII-regions along the whole galactio equator o Catalogue of 698 known emission nebulae is given on the basis of 13 lists and catalogues of these objects. ... The list of objects from the source-catalogues of HII-regions excluded as SNR, planetaries and galaxies is also given. to be added S number reconstructed from MSL_OPT (Dixon) No RA(1950) DEC(1950) lll.l bb.b Dia" Source NGC,IC,M 1 00 00 18. ...